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CHAPTER 3 – SOME TOPOI IN THE KURTULUŞ EDEBİYATI 
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long ago as 1875 had already placed emphasis on the value of women who worked in 
order to earn their living: not only the protagonist’s slave went out to work but his 
widowed mother too worked at home in order to make ends meet
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Nonetheless simpler explanations for an author’s choices are generally to be 
preferred. As Tanpınar
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saw, one of the elements of the novel, which he rather 
dismissed as a photographer’s backdrop but which seems to be the key to its 
enduring popularity, is a sentimental history and fittingly with the age old tradition of 
faithful and reunited love only a heroine would do. Guth’s analysis however, brings 
to the fore the theme of the “other” and the quest for inclusion. This is a significant 
point which will be discussed in the chapter on 
Yaban
where Yakup Kadri boldly and 
eloquently lays his cards open on the table.
The topos of Anatolia as a remote and wild land finds expression in a completely 
different way in the long but beautifully flowing poem of 
Han Duvarları 
(The Walls 
of an Inn) by Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel, which was published in 1926. 
Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel was born in Istanbul in 1889 to an educated middle-class 
family. His father Süleyman Nafiz Bey was the head clerk of the Ministry of Forests 
and Mines. His mother Ruhiye Hanım was the daughter of the merchant Necati Bey. 
He had his primary and secondary education at the Hadika-i Meşveret İdadisi and at 
the Rüştiye in Bakırköy. For a period he studied at the Faculty of Medicine but did 
not graduate. He started writing poetry while he was a medical student. His talent 
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Ahmet Mithat Efendi, 9 
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Seyhan, 73 

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was appreciated immediately by the literary circles of that period. He started 
publishing his first poetical works in 
Peyam-i Edebi 
(Literary Messenger) in 1913-
1914, in 
Edebiyat-ı Umumiye Mecmuasi
(Universal Literary Review) in 1916-19, in 
Yeni Mecmua
(New Review) in 1918, in 
Umid Mecmuası 
(Review of Hope) (1919-
1921), in 
Şair 
(Poet) (1918-1919), in 
Büyük Mecmua
(Great Review) (1919) and in 
Nedim
(Companion) (1919). During 1922 he was sent to Ankara as a representative 
of 
İleri Gazetesi 
(Progressive Newspaper). In the same year he was sent to Kayseri as 
a teacher of literature. In 1924-1925 he became a teacher of Literature at various 
schools and Academies in Ankara. In 1932 he taught Literature again at the Kabataş 
Lisesi in Istanbul. At the same time he taught at the American College for Girls. 
During these years, and while he was teaching in Ankara and Istanbul, he continued 
to publish in many periodicals such as Güneş (The Sun), 
Tavus
(The Peacock), 
Hayat 
(Life), 
Yedigün
(Seven Days) and in 
Anayurt
(The Motherland), a periodical which 
he started himself. He also published in two Istanbul satirical magazines, 
Akbaba
(The Vulture) and 
Karikatür 
(Caricature) using the pen name 
Deli Ozan
(Mad 
Minstrel) and 
Çamdeviren 
(Plunderer). In 1946 he was elected as a representative for 
Istanbul in the Grand National Assembly. In May 1960 he was kept under arrest in 
Yassıada together with other representatives of the Democratic Party, and after he 
was released he retired from politics and lived a quiet life until his death in 1973. 
It is worth noting that in his first collections of poetry, namely 
Şarkın Sultanları 
(The 
Sultans of the East) (1918), 
Gönülden Gönüle
(From Heart to Heart)
 
(1919) and 

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